Sony just dropped a huge bomb on the gaming community and people don’t even seem to realize. On October 28th, which is tomorrow, the PS4 will be getting an update with a slew of cool new tricks but there is one feature I am super giddy about, ‘Share Play’!

‘Share Play’ allows you to either let your friend play a game that you own over the internet while in a party together or play a game you own together. Essentially it’s the closest thing to couch gaming without actually being on the same couch.

Confused? Let Sony explain it you in a simple YouTube video, isn’t the internet great?

Finished watching? Amazing right? Sure being able to pass the controller to your friend and let them play your game is an amazing feature, but the feature that I am excited for is playing a game together.

Every year my buddy and I start a Madden co-op franchise. We choose the worst team in the NFL, make some changes in free agency, pull off some nifty trades and start our franchise. I play QB he plays RB.

This tradition started in college when my buddy and I first met and has continued to this day. But after graduating college we both went our separate ways.

We have always managed to meet up at least once a year for a Madden binge, but after that weekend is done so is our franchise. But with ‘Share Play’ my friend and I’s dream seems to have come true.

Starting tomorrow, we can play our co-op Madden franchise whenever we want. All we need is an internet connection and some free time. This is huge!

Which brings me back to the title of my post, why aren’t people freaking out about this?

Of course this will be no substitute for owning the game, but I am not sure gamers are aware of how awesome this is. Let me paint a picture for yah.

You just got Awesome Co-op RPG Shooter (that game sounds amazing!) you obviously love the game, but you want someone to play with. So you text your best friend, “You have Awesome Co-op RPG Shooter?”

Your friend responds, “No, I don’t.”

Now usually that’s where this conversation would end. You’d text back with something along the lines of “Oh you should go buy it.”

But with ‘Share Play’ your response now is, “No worries, jump on your PS4 and thanks to ‘Share Play’ we can play it together.”

Ok maybe you don’t actually respond quite like that, but you get the point.

This is huge gaming community! I haven’t been this excited for news in a very long time. Maybe people aren’t quite grasping the significance of this or maybe I am being misled, but as of right now I am living on Cloud 9!

Am I overacting? Are you excited? Is everyone else freaking out? Let me know in the comments below!

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With E3 press conferences going on today I have posted a lot of stories to my website: Garnet Lantern. A lot of the stories are like what you would find here on IGN as I am practicing my news postings and providing some of my personal opinions.

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After five games of laughable offense the Tigers finally managed to provide the pop that has come to be expected of them. The Tigers doubled their run total on the season in just one game, recording a season high 16 hits and only striking out a combined four times.

Rajai Davis got the offense going by starting the game with a leadoff triple. Two batters later Miguel Cabrera would ground out to short to bring home the Tigers first run of the game. The Tigers would only manage that one run in the first, but would explode in the second inning.

The Tigers would crush Johan Santana scoring five runs in the inning, easily the biggest inning of the season for the Tigers. Miguel Cabrera would cap the inning off with a 2 out 2 RBI double to right center. The double was Miguel Cabrera’s 2000th hit of his career.

In a night when the bats finally came alive for the Tigers it only seemed right that the pitching would take a step back. Justin Verlander would struggle through five innings, allowing three runs and giving up eight hits. He would turn the ball over to his bull pen who would struggle just as much if not more than him.

Chamberlin, Alaburquerque and Nathan would close out the final three innings and give up three runs between them. Nathan giving up a ninth inning solo HR to JJ Hardy that would put the Orioles within two, but Nathan stayed cool and closed the game out to record his second save of the season.

The Tigers are now 4-2 on the season and head to LA to take on the Dodgers over the next two games.

Game Notes:

Ian Kinsler was the only player of the Tigers to not record a hit. This pushes his batting average to an awful .090. Torii Hunter is sizzling right now; with two more hits today Hunter is batting .380 on the season.

Now one time completely through their rotation the Detroit Tigers have been given a solid start by every single pitcher. Rick Porcello was the most recent pitcher for the Tigers to deliver an outstanding outing and thankfully for the Tigers they were able to produce enough runs in order to record their third victory of the season.

Alex Avila came through again, delivering a big hit in a key situation. With two on and one out in the bottom of the second Avila brought both base runners home with a 2 RBI double to right center. The two runs would be the only runs the Tigers would score all game.

It was all Porcello needed as he pitched a gem of a game, pitching 7 innings of scoreless baseball and only allowing three hits and unlike in recent games the bull pen was stellar. After Porcello surrendered the ball to his bull pen in the 8th Joel Hanrahan would pitch a perfect inning and Al Alburquerque would get Chris Davis to ground into a game ending double play to end the game and record his first save of the season.

Although the Tigers are still getting outstanding pitching from their starters their bats are still struggling, but starting to show a little more sign of life. Especially Torii Hunter who managed to bump his batting average to .352 with a 3 for 3 game.

The win puts the Tigers at 3-2 on the season and ties the series. Detroit will look to win the series against Baltimore next when Verlander takes the mound.

Game Notes:

Miguel Cabrera is still not hitting like Cabrera as he struck out three times in the game. The Tigers only managed to record 2 hits from of their top four batters.

Box Score

Four games into the season and a pattern is starting to emerge for the Tigers. Starting pitching is outstanding, but there is no offensive help to be found. No matter how well Drew Smyly pitched he wasn’t going to get a win in his first start of the season.

Usually when your starting pitcher goes six innings and only allows one run you’re walking away with a win, but thanks to the Tigers struggles at the plate that one run was enough to doom Smyly.

The Tigers bats could only manage four hits through eight innings and no runs and yet again the Tigers couldn’t manage enough runs to get their starter the win, a problem that has been persistent for the entire first week of the season.

The usually fierce Tigers lineup has been quieted to a point of laughable status. No one on the team is batting above .266 and only three batters in the starting lineup are above .200. If the Tigers can’t find their swing soon they could find themselves in an early hole to begin the season.

The Tigers will face the Orioles next with Rick Porcello taking the mound for his first start of the season.

Game Notes:

Ian Kinsler’s Tiger career has started slowly; he is currently only batting .071 through four games. The Tigers batters struck out 11 times, their most in a game on this young season.